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The Royal Navy is the principal naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces.Its assets include both commissioned warships and non-commissioned vessels. As of December 2024, there are 62 commissioned and active ships in the Royal Navy.
The Fleet Solid Support Ship Programme (FSSP) [7] aims to deliver up to three fleet solid support ships to the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary. The ships will be used to provide underway replenishment of dry stores, such as ammunition, spare parts and supplies, to ships of the Royal Navy .
Fleet is a town and civil parish in the Hart District of Hampshire, England, centred 38 miles (61 km) south-west of London and 13 miles (21 km) east of Basingstoke.. It is the largest town of the Hart District, and has many large technology business areas, fast rail links to London, and is well connected to the M3.
Since then the Fleet Commander has flown his flag from these headquarters at the shore establishment HMS Excellent. In addition, the First Sea Lord flies his flag in HMS Victory (permanently based at the National Museum of the Royal Navy , but still a commissioned warship), and she is thus referred to as the 'First Sea Lord's Flagship'.
The resulting pilot shortage was a factor in being able to stand up the first Fleet Air Arm Squadron (809 Squadron) on a timely basis. [125] In February 2023, the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, stated that the number of UK F-35 pilots had grown to 34, with a further 7 to complete training by August 2023. [126]
The RFA is funded out of the UK defence budget and the Commodore commanding the RFA is directly responsible to the Royal Navy Fleet Commander. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary also provides the naval service's principal amphibious warfare capability through its three Bay-class landing ship dock vessels. The service is manned by around 1,750 civilian ...
Unveiled in 2019, the original concept design for ELLIDA was a multi-role auxiliary vessel designed to perform as both a solid stores ship for fleet replenishment-at-sea (RAS) and as a auxiliary landing vessel similar in capability to the Bay-class. [22] [23] At DSEI 2023, BMT unveiled a revised ELLIDA design. This second generation design ...
The Fleet Commander is a senior Royal Navy post, responsible for the operation, resourcing and training of the ships, submarines and aircraft, and personnel, of the Naval Service. The Vice-Admiral incumbent is required to provide ships, submarines and aircraft ready for operations, and is based at Navy Command Headquarters .